20 Mule Team

Overview

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.

Cast

Wallace Beery

Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy

Leo Carrillo

Piute Pete

Marjorie Rambeau

Josie Johnson

Anne Baxter

Jean Johnson

Douglas Fowley

Stag Roper

Noah Beery Jr.

Mitch

Berton Churchill

'Jackass' Brown

Arthur Hohl

Salters

Clem Bevans

Chuckawalla

Charles Halton

Henry Adams

Minor Watson

Marshal

Oscar O'Shea

Train Conductor